Out of the blue my mobile starts to ring with the caller id, saying it's Nextbyte ... this must be THE call, I thought with anticipation.



I was waiting with baited breath on every word that dripped from her
mouth ... all up to the point where she said "your new iMac hasn't
arrived".

As well as old school paper reading, I've been trawling the web for Mac
sites to keep me salivating. And here's my favourites so far:-



    * <a href="http://www.macnn.com/">MacNN</a> - The Latest Mac News from around the globe.

    * <a href="http://appleinsider.com/">AppleInsider</a> - Inside Rumours/Goss on Apple.

    * <a href="http://appletalk.com.au/">AppleTalk Australia</a> - Australian Apple Community.



For more sites, check out my <a href="http://del.icio.us/sikosis/apple">del.icio.us apple</a> links.

Since I ordered my iMac on the 2nd Feb, I've been scouting around all the local newsagencies for all the Mac magazines that I can get my hands on, so I can get a leg up when my machine arrives.

There were probably about 4-5 mags on the shelf with the two stand outs for me being Mac Format (UK) and MacWorld (AU).

I've now waited quietly for week. I just rang Nextbyte
and I was informed that there is a 2-3 week delay on new machines. I
said, is that because you don't have any parts in Australia ? to which
he replied, that all new machines are put together in Singapore and
then shipped from there. It all depends on how fast they're working.



I must say this is a very strange feeling for me. I've paid for it, yet I don't have it.

I was on Cloud 9 for about an hour when I got a phone call from Nextbyte
to say that unfortunately the machine that they had in stock was a DOA
(Dead on Arrival). I was then informed they'd let me know.